Guitar comments and questions

My blog is moving

2007-02-20T00:29:00.000+01:00

I have decided to move my blog into my own site. Or to be a bit more precise: To discontinue this blog and continue at guitarblog.torvund.net. You are welcome to come with me to this new blog. See you at guitarblog.torvund.net.

To those of you who wonder what I do with the site ..

2006-12-13T23:33:00.001+01:00

My website is a hobby, not something I do as a job. Which means that I can work on it whenever time permit. It does not always do.I have been working a lot "behind the scene". I have built a database to support the site, and most of the information have been entered into the site. But there is still work to be done before I can get it on the net. And for technical reasons this cannot be done

Open C Tuning

2005-11-30T00:07:00.000+01:00

Helo there,Just a quick word considering open C tuning. I believe it may have first been used by Jimmy Page on a song from physical graffiti called " Bron-Yr- Aur " . I know that he established the tunings DADGAD and DADGBD in the mainstreamn but these were certainly not first used by Page as Davey Graham is the earliset person i am aware used them. However, there is a chance either Page or

Error on website

2005-11-12T20:50:00.000+01:00

Your information is terrific. Sometimes I feel it will take the rest of my days to just learn what you have already forgot. It seems I am often reading and re-reading your pages and information. Many thanks for having this on line. Your efforts are appreciated sincerely.On the we page at http://www.torvund.net/guitar/chords/Minor.asp , in the second paragraph you commentFor this reason I will

Baryton ukulele

2005-11-12T19:53:00.000+01:00

Dear Sir: It is with great interest and much admiration that I read your lessons. I'm a 69 retired Chemist who decided to learn to play the guitar. My hand being small, I was having a great deal of trouble with a lot of the chords. A friend suggested I try the Baritone Ukulele. As I'm sure you know it has the DGBE strings of the guitar. My problem is that there is precious little written for

New BLUES-related web pages

2005-11-12T19:47:00.000+01:00

Olav,Could you please consider adding a link to my new BLUES pages?http://www.t4p.com/blues/I would love to get some eyes on my pages, and your commentsand feedback are welcomed.My pages cover blues overview, history, music structure, artists,CD recomentations, and an overview of my own personalblues recording project.Thanks,Mark JeghersSan Jose CAMark Jeghers Contractor/

Your site

2005-11-12T19:44:00.000+01:00

Hi Olav - just wanted to drop you a note to say your site is out of site! I have been playing guitar for oh, 25 years without any formal training and in just 30 minutes I picked up things that I've always wondered how to play. I learned playing by ear, and although I am formally trained in trumpet, reading music for guitar was not for me. But your site has given me the inspiration to buckle down

Re: Music Theory Lessons and possible translation

2005-11-12T19:43:00.000+01:00

Hello Olav As a beginner to the world of guitar, I'm an avid reader of all that can help me to learn guitar theory and practice. I've just discovered your lessons and though I haven't read all of them, I think they are a really good resource. I would like to translate and adapt them to spanish to help other people (starting with my son) and I ask your permission for it. Of course I would do

Guitar Tonewood page

2005-11-12T19:22:00.000+01:00

Dear Olav,About http://www.torvund.net/guitar/equipment/Guitar_Tonewood.aspI just found your "Guitar Tonewood" page.Very interesting. There's an error in the page title (you wrote "gutiar" instead of "guitar".May I please ask what your information source is for this page? Is it based on your own experience, on info found on the web or in a book?Regards,François (Brussels)It is put together from

The website

2005-11-12T19:01:00.000+01:00

I just wanted to say how much I love your site. The Lessons on theory are great and will help many guitarist. I know they have helped my improv skills greatly. I am a respected member of a few guitar clubs on the net and I have a link to your site in my bio on everyone. Best of luck to you Olav , From Greville ...., Commerce - Georgia - U.S.AThank you for kind words and for helping to make the

Bass scales

2005-11-12T18:59:00.000+01:00

greetings,I am a bass guitarist and I take a class in school that uses your site to learn to play scales. I would like to know if there is any change that you have the notes for the scales for a bass guitar. it is very difficult to try to play the scales and try to compensate for the last two strings of the guitar for the bass and my grades are starting to suffer in my grades because of it.

Your website

2005-11-12T18:50:00.000+01:00

Olav,I would like to commend you on the great guitar site you have put together. In particular, I am indebted to you for suggesting smaller-bodied acoustic guitars for finger-picking styles. I have been playing classical but wanted to move into acoustic to do some Hawaiian slack key and the Martin OOO series has been perfect. Without your advice I would probably have bought a Dreadnought and

Your website

2005-11-12T18:48:00.000+01:00

Hi olav,I stumbled across your website by accident and am very glad I did.Its a great help in fact probably the best website dealing with guitar that I have come accross.THanks.The lessons on blues guitar have become my reference source.Nick

Re: Your blues lessons

2005-11-12T18:47:00.000+01:00

Hi, A friend showed me your site and I think it's great !! I am a one year guitar player, but i'm 47 yrs old... I love it especially the blues. Is that you on the sound bites ? You sound like one of the great bluesman if it is. Thanks for the great site. It's hard for me to find a teacher of blues in Orange County a, California area. I study best with material like yoiu presented. Thanks Dorian

Re: Blues guitar

2005-11-12T18:43:00.000+01:00

Dear Olav -I discovered your guitar website a couple of years ago. I think it is absolutely wonderful, and thank you immensely for taking the time and effort required to create this wonderful resource.I'm 45 and have been stuck at the beginner-to-intermediate level of acoustic guitar for over 10 years. I know many chords and can make most of the basic changes on basic chords quite fluently. It's

http://www.guitarchordsmagic.com

2005-11-12T18:25:00.000+01:00

I'm Dirk Laukens, webmaster of "http://www.guitarchordsmagic.com", a site devoted to... guitar chords.I added a link to your site here :"http://www.guitarchordsmagic.com/guitar-chords-resources/guitar-guitar-lessons.html".If you'd like to see your site in another category or with another description, please let me know.I'd appreciate if you'd place a link back to my site.I will add a link at next

guitar chord progressions

2005-11-12T18:16:00.000+01:00

I am a 66 yr. old strugling to learn guitar. I do not read music and do not understand most chord progression charts that are available online. Do you know of any website that clearly shows guitar chord progressions using dots on the fretboard? I do not know any such websites. The only thing I can suggest is that you have to do it the harde way by learning the chord shapes and the progressions,

To questions (minor chords and pentatonic scales)

2005-11-12T18:09:00.000+01:00

Two questions that I remain having trouble to get answered are:1. Is the minor key simply the I IV V but in minor for instead of majorI am not sure if I understand the question. The primary chords for natural minor are i - iv - v (or Im - IVm - Vm, as some prefer to notate this.) In Am it will be Am - Dm - Em.But in harmonic minor and melodic minor the chords are i - iv - V7, which in Am will be